You all many remember Amy Green from a guest post she did here back in March 2011. Amy authors the blog, Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free, and brand new cookbook, Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free: 180 Easy & Delicious Recipes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less. The cookbook is just gorgeous and I am thrilled that I had the pleasure to review a copy and now give one away to one of my readers!

A little about Amy:
Amy Green, M.Ed., authors Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free, (www.SimplySugarAndGlutenFree.com) a blog about eating well, eliminating refined sugars and wheat, and maintaining a healthy weight. Her first cookbook, Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free: 180 Easy & Delicious Recipes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less, has been on Amazon’s best seller lists since its release in February 2011.
Amy has been living free from white sugar and wheat since 2004 and, as a result, is maintaining a 60+ pound weight loss. Over the years she’s learned that eating healthier doesn’t equal deprivation. She was recently interviewed on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Talk 980 USA, appeared on Channels KTEN and Channel 33 News, was featured in The Plano Profile, and will be in the April Edition of D Magazine. She is a field editor for Healthy Cooking Taste of Home, freelance writer, does recipe development, and teaches local sugar-free, gluten-free baking classes. Amy lives with her husband and four dogs in Dallas, TX.
Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free has so many appetizing recipes in it, I didn’t know where to start! I seriously needed to sit down and make a list of the different foods that I want to make from the book. I like Amy’s no nonsense approach to cooking & her methods for cutting down time spent in the kitchen; we can all use a extra time to do the things we really love to do, right? For me that is running & spending time with my family! Instead of using refined, white sugar, Amy uses a variety of sugar substitutes, such as palm sugar, agave nectar, banana, liquid stevia and more. I am thinking the Peanut Butter Hot Fudge Cake sounds like the perfect dessert to make for our Mother’s Day get together, which also happens to be the same day as my upcoming half marathon.
Would you like to win a copy of Amy’s new cookbook? Here is what you need to do to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this post, not on my Facebook page. Tell me what your favorite sugar substitute is.
For additional entries, please complete any 1 or more of the following, leaving a separate comment for each one completed. (This helps me count entries).
2. “Like” Amy’s Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free Facebook page and leave a comment.
3. Follow Amy on Twitter and leave a comment.
4. “Like” Gluten-Free is Life on Facebook and leave a comment.
5. Follow Gluten-Free is Life on Twitter and leave a comment.
This giveaway will run from Monday May 2, 2011 through Monday May 9, 2011 at midnight. The winner will be announced Tuesday May 10, 2011. I will randomly select a winner on May 10, 2011. Good luck to all who enter!!!
Amy’s book can be purchased on Amazon or at Barnes & Noble. This is would be a fabulous Mother’s Day gift for your wife, mother, mother-in-law or grandmother.
***I received this book free of charge to review. The thoughts & opinions of this book and/or the recipes are my own and have not been influenced by anyone or anything.



My son and me, November 2000. This is before we were gluten-free/diagnosed Celiac.


I just liked GFIL on FB
I have just started using coconut sugar and coconut nectar and love them- they are my new go-to's! They taste good, are lower on the glycemic index, are full of nutrients, and have very little fructose. Amazing stuff!
I am a fan of SS & GF on Facebook!
My favorite sugar substitute is natural fruits! I really want to lessen my fructose exposure for a while and even honey and maple syrup and agave and such have fructose in them.
I like SS & GF on FB
This looks like an interesting book. I'm just beginning to be interested in reducing sugar intake in our GF household. Honey is the other sweetener we use on a regular basis.
I "like" Amy's SS & GF on Facebook.
I "like" Gluten-Free is Life on Facebook.
I use baking splenda as a sugar substitute! I've been using splenda since before the FDA approved it here
Following you on FB!
Following Amy on Facebook!
I love maple syrup! but I am really trying to eliminate sweet from my diet.
I like SS & GF on facebook
I follow Amy on twitter
I just liked Gluten Free is Life on FB as well!
I use fruit in place of sugar a lot. Sometime I just go without it all together.
I like Gluten Free is life on facebook and have shared it with my GF friends.
I follow gfreeislife on twitter
I'm in love with agave right now but I haven't tried coconut sugar yet which sounds lovely.
I was tired of using white sugar knowing that it wasn’t good for me. So one day I typed in sugar and gluten free. Amy’s page came up and I have liked her page and yours also.
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Please please please enter me! Thank you!
raw honey!
favorite sugar substitute is palm sugar (aka coconut crystals)!
like amy on facebook!
Ms Green was my third grade teacher and my absolute favorite teacher…. I never thought about going gluten free but when i did the research i saw everything that it does to you and now im gonna try to do it….
My favorite sugar substitute right now is agave – love how it stores so well, too (doesn't crystallize like honey).
I am so glad I found SS & GF on Facebook! It’s just the diet my family needs! We love agave syrup in all our baking recipes, no more sugar for us! Thank you Amy!
Have been following Amy’s blog for about a month! Love everything about it & I feel so healthy!!
Oops, favorite sugar substitute is agave or wholesome zero!
I prefer good old fashioned fruit thank you very much!
following amy on twitter too!
My favorite subsitute is splenda
I enjoy working using palm sugar as a substitute.
good old Honey is my favorite sweetner.
I love NuStevia in the clear liquid!!
I want to use low fructose products-so will try lo-han as a sweetener and investigate coconut crystals–I use stevia and love honey and maple syrup, but trying to cut out most sugars unless whole fruit.
I already follow Amy on Twitter (my handle is @eating freely)
Well, I love honey, but I’ve just begun playing around with stevia and how to use dates. I’ve also been using applesauce/apple puree lately.
Wow, great giveaway! THanks for sharing.
My favorite sugar substitue is stevia, because I have a hard time with sugar of any kind. But when I’m feeling naughty, maple syrup and honey are my favorites.
I am following Gluten-Free is Life on Twitter
I'm following Amy on Twitter
Have been living GF for several months since my son and husband are intolerant. Looking for more healthy and low sugar GF recipes. So glad to have found your site!! Thank you!!
Splenda Brown sugar blend is my favorite substitute and Honey!
I also follow you on FB.
Happy Mothers Day and would love to recieve your cookbook, I have no GF cookbooks I always improvise
my fav sugar substitute is lankanto , get it from body ecology website or raw organic honey thanks for your blog
My favorite sweetener is raw coconut sugar!!!!! Used it today in on eof Amy's recipe's I found on her blog….yum!
“Like” Amy’s Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free Facebook page-Rae Pavey
Follow Gluten-Free is Life on Twitter @throuthehaze
The sugar substitute I have been mostly using is Ideal